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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 8·Undated

Bamboula, Miscellaneous (Mi)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 43 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 8 (Bamboula, Miscellaneous (Mi)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 43 of 130

Mi 141 B1601

Spindle whorl

Double-conical. Rich light yellowish-grey clay, shading to pink. Burnished surface. Incised zigzags between vertical lines. 3 pairs of 3 of each number unbroken from top ^3 of each number unbroken from top L. 0.025 to bottom. Diam. 0.024

soft polished stone?

29-5-39 Bamboula, Trial pit 2.00 m. S-E of Tomb 36

Perturbations continued with incised circle

J.F.D., VIII, p. 68: 2

1954-47

Photograph: black and white image of a spindle whorl

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

Objects named on this pageBamboula (Episkopi)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded

  • Mi 141Spindle whorl

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